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Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.

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Community, Innovation, Working Together

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Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

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Goal, Survival, Resilience

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By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

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Today, Tomorrow

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When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

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Memories, Space, Radio

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Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

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Stress, Strategy, Turns

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The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.

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Strong, Thinking, Long

"SXSW: Futurist Jamais Cascio Sees GOP Filters, Alt Energy". Interview with Lewis Wallace, www.wired.com. March 10, 2008.

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Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

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Urbanization, Wind, Civilization

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Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

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Skills, People, Looks

"Google isn't making us dumb - or smart. That's the problem" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2009.

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The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle

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Future, Ideas, Work Out

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Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldnt even consider doing.

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Winning, Trying, Littles

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Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.

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Design, Energy, May

Jamais Cascio “Hacking the Earth”, Lulu.com

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Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

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Wall, Mean, Action

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In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

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Eye, World, Skeptical

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A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

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Fiction Stories, Might, Science Fiction

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The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

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Work, Technology, Differences

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To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.

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Would Be, Global Warming, Geoengineering

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Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

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Tunnels, Wind, Strategy

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Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.

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Needs, Internet, Clear

"Anonymizing the Web" by Jamais Cascio, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.

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It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

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Information, Easy, Individual

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Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

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Keys, Everyday, May

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Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.

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Technology, Reality, Garden

"When ‘Mad Men’ Meets Augmented Reality". www.fastcompany.com. March 24, 2009.

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The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough.

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Reality, Enough, Happenings

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Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.

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Thinking, Agriculture, Water

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Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?

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Mean, Goal, Political

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As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

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Real, Book, Website

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